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Day Quotes

Lines on routine, duty and the shape of an ordinary day.

These quotes span a wide range of daily experience: actors describing the grind of read-throughs and reshoots, and reflections on the discipline service members carry with them off duty as well as on. For more on the rhythm of daily life, see our Day-To-Day Life quotes.

It was a nightmare having cameras in the house 10 hours a day for a month.

Quotes by Kathy Griffin

I won't give up my day job of design.

Quotes by Kathy Ireland

It's a sad day when a cartoon is doing more and cares more and pays more attention to the environment than our president.

Quotes by Kathy Najimy

I realized I couldn't raise two kids, coach soccer, be on the PTA, teach full time, and do all the administrative bookkeeping. I do need to sleep four or five hours a day.

Quotes by Kathy Szeliga

It's kind of like family. I can't say that we go out to lunch and to the movies every day with each other. Everyone's fully grown adult women with lives.

Quotes by Kathy Valentine

I wrote 'The Kiss' 12 hours a day for six months.

Quotes by Kathryn Harrison

Launching a start-up, you need to get a lot done quickly. Every day is different. Everyone pitches in with everything. It's easy for the founding team to say, 'We're flexible. We all help out with everything!' But when it comes...

Quotes by Kathryn Minshew

The first light of day today revealed what we had feared. The devastation is greater than our worst fears. It's just totally overwhelming.

Quotes by Kathleen Blanco

You don't have to have magic unicorn powers. You work at it, and you get better. It's like anything: You sit there and do it every day, and eventually you get good at it.

Quotes by Kathleen Hanna

You never know what you're getting into like some of the best experiences I've ever had have been movies that literally had a million dollar budget and everybody's eating Cheetos all day and running around without permits and trying not...

Quotes by Kathleen Robertson

It isn't that easy to drop character, especially when you shoot for 12 to 16 hours a day for six months.

Quotes by Katherine Langford

My go-to shoes for everyday would probably have to be either my white Converse that I've had since high school or my black Alexander McQueen flats with the skull on the top. It depends on my day.

Quotes by Katherine Schwarzenegger

I talk to my mom about six times a day, and we constantly email in between that. People say that I'm her twin. I guess it would be the Kennedy genes; my cheekbones are coming out.

Quotes by Katherine Schwarzenegger

I was never into makeup when I was younger, and I still love not piling on the makeup every day, but as I've gotten older I've actually found makeup to be fun.

Quotes by Katherine Schwarzenegger

God didn't bless me with success so I could eat caviar every day.

Quotes by Kathie Lee Gifford

I did feel from day one that I was a born performer.

Quotes by Kathie Lee Gifford

Love in the real world means saying you're sorry 10 times a day.

Quotes by Kathie Lee Gifford

To this day I do not believe I'm great at anything.

Quotes by Kathie Lee Gifford

To this day I do not know whether the power which has inspired my works is something related to religion, or is indeed religion itself.

Quotes by Kathe Kollwitz

We are big composters. We compost everything - bread, tea bags, coffee grounds. I even dump out my old coffee in the garden. We keep a mixing bowl on the counter and just fill it up as the day goes...

Quotes by Katherine Center

Frequently Asked Questions

What's the theme connecting the quotes on this Day page?
The quotes gathered here touch on daily life and routine from different angles - one speaker reflects on being held accountable "twenty-four hours a day," and another describes the routine of a scene-by-scene read-through happening the day before filming, giving the page a loose, everyday-life throughline. For quotes centered specifically on daily routines, see Day-To-Day Life.
Do these quotes come from a specific field or background?
They span a few different worlds - one is a personal reflection on skin and diet changes since college, another discusses accountability among those serving in Iraq, and two more describe the day-to-day realities of working on film and TV sets.
Is there a quote here about filmmaking routines specifically?
Yes, one entry describes not having "the luxury of rehearsal time on most films," explaining that a scene-by-scene read-through often happens just before shooting rather than well in advance.
What about quotes touching on imagination or escaping routine?
This page focuses more on grounded daily-life reflections, so if you're looking for quotes about mentally drifting away from the day-to-day, Daydream quotes might be a better fit.
How is this different from the Daybreak or Daylight pages?
This page's quotes are reflections tied to daily routine and experience in general, rather than the specific moment of morning or sunrise - for that, Daybreak and Daylight are the more focused pages.

Other related pages include our Daybreak quotes for morning-themed lines and Daydream quotes for something more imaginative.